Purchase, NY… Junior Erin Healy (Spring Lake Heights, NJ/Manasquan) continued her torrid scoring pace as the forward netted four straight goals as The College of New Jersey field hockey team pushed its winning streak to eight with a 6-0 victory at Manhattanville College on Tuesday.
 
Healy has been on a tear of late scoring six goals over the last three games and has recorded the game-winning goal in each of those contests. She was also very efficient on Tuesday scoring those four goals on five shots on goal. Healy now has 10 goals on the season, which already ties a career high.
 
The win put the ninth-ranked Lions at 8-1 on the season, while Manhattanville dropped to 7-5.
 
While Healy was taking care of things at the offensive end of the field, the team's defense pitched its fifth straight shutout. TCNJ's defense was facing one of the more potent attacks in the country as Manhattanville had scored 14 goals in its last two games and entered the game averaging more than five goals a contest, but managed only four shots on goal against the Lions.
 
Healy got the Lions the early lead scoring 1:07 into the game, banging home a rebound on a shot by Erin Waller (Sewell, NJ/Washington Twp.). Less than five minutes later, Healy scored her second of the game with an assist from junior Lindsey Hatch (Sewell, NJ/Washington Twp.).
 
That 2-0 lead held until the second half when TCNJ exploded for three goals in a span 10:42. Healy scored the first of those when the Lions were awarded a penalty stroke 3:07 into the period and then notched her fourth goal of the game exactly five minutes later as she tapped in a rebound from close range.
 
Freshman Lexi Smith (Florence, NJ/Florence Twp.) tacked on the team's fifth goal of the game with Hatch picking up her second helper. Smith now has seven goals in eight games this fall.
 
Hatch then got on the scoreboard herself one-timing a pass from junior Victoria Martin (Clark, NJ/Arthur L. Johnson) to close out the scoring. That was her Hatch's fifth goal of the season and came with 5:06 left.
 
In goal for the Lions, junior Amanda Krause (Richboro, PA/Council Rock North) made three saves for her fifth straight shutout.  That shutout ran her growing scoreless streak to 376:55. Sophomore Kerry Curran (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville) helped keep that streak alive as well with a defensive save midway through the second half.
 
TCNJ returns to New Jersey Athletic Conference play on Friday, October 4, heading to William Paterson University for a 7 p.m. start.